Michael F. Cusato, O.F.M., is a Franciscan friar and priest in the Sacred Heart Province of Friars Minor (St. Louis, MO). He is a church historian as well as a specialist in the history of the Franciscan movement, with special emphasis upon the first century of its existence. A number of these articles have been published in his: The Early Franciscan Movement (1205-1239): History, Sources, and Hermeneutics (2009). A former director of the Franciscan Institute and dean of its School of Franciscan Studies at St. Bonaventure University, he is currently a Distinguished Professor of St. Bonaventure University and an independent scholar living in Washington D.C.
Timothy J. Johnson is the Craig and Audrey Thorn Distinguished Professor of Religion at Flagler College. A Senior Fulbright Scholar and Chair of the Research Advisor Board of the Franciscan Institute, he was appointed in 2015 as a historical commissioner for the Cause of the Beatification and Canonization of Antonio Cuipa and Companions. He has published extensively in the areas of Franciscan history, spirituality and theology. He recently co-authored the Fonti Liturgiche Francescane (2015) with Marco Bartoli, Jacques Dalarun and Filippo Sedda, and translated the original Latin text of Thomas of Celano’s Vita brevior in The Rediscovered Life of St. Francis of Assisi, ed. Jacques Dalarun (2016).
Steven J. McMichael, O.F.M. Conv., is a Conventual Franciscan friar of Our Lady of Consolation Province (USA). He is an associate professor of theology at the University of Saint Thomas (Saint Paul, MN). He has worked on polemical literature of the Late Middle Ages and currently does research and writing on medieval preaching and theology on the resurrection. His most recent publication is The Glory of Paradise: Risen Life in the Easter Octave Sermons of Bernadino da Siena (2016).